Rap's allure is clear. It's blatant arrogance is what gives it an aura of cool. But I think rap's popularity is superficial. A lot of the lemmings out there go with rap just because it's seem as the "in" thing. It doesn't help at all there are offshoots of rock music that fuse with rap music. I was wondering if a charismatic artist can use the kind of self-aggrandizing attitude of rappers and use it to spread anti-rap messages, outright dissing rap and it's stupidity. I have a gut feeling that it would instantly have a profitable following.

If I were a businessman with the right connections, I'd work on that right away. Just get a good-looking guy, or even better yet, a good-looking girl to sing about how dumb, unattractive, and unbecoming rap and rap culture is. The rappers and Jewry would be getting a taste of their own medicine.

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Let me add to this topic by saying that most rap music (in specific rap music that shows a corresponding video(s)) that I've experienced through the years carries these messages to it's audience of listeners:

1) Pro-hate and racial propaganda (especially against White people)

A while ago I watched a rap video with Black people dressed up in military garb wearing black hoods reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan. They were carrying all sorts of weapons from baseball bats to automatic weapons. The music itself incorporated a steady beat with these apparently agitated Blacks jumping around and 'stomping' the floor of a warehouse and smashing things with said baseball bats in tune to the music. What was the point of this display? Why were they wearing black hoods echoing the KKK? Why were they dressed in military fatigues and carrying dangerous weapons? What was the overt message here? Tell me, if a group of White people made a music video incorporating these same elements (white hoods, guns and violent girations smashing everything in sight) who would be the first group or groups to cry 'RACISM'? Would this video ever be shown to the general audience? Why is this sort of video being marketed to young, impressionable Black people?

2) Overt money worship and 'status mongering'.

I've watched rap videos where the sole theme is the love/worship of money and the attainment of high social status and the power that brings with it. Young Blacks in these videos display enormously obnoxious diamond-encrusted necklaces and rings, ride around in Bentleys and other ridiculously expensive cars, wear extremely expensive 'sports-gear' type clothing, and always seem to have a cadre of extremely attractive and well endowed brown skinned women in very revealing outfits dancing and girating around them in what appears to be some form of 'status worship' to the 'rap-stars' themselves. What are the message(s) being sent here? Are these messages appropriate to send to young impressionable Black people? What messages are being sent to young impressionable White people that view this videos.

3) Magnification of specific stereotypical racial themes.

I've also viewed rap videos that overtly compare the stereotypical physical attractiveness of Black women to that of White women. In the videos, supposedly representative Black women are shown that exhibit supposedly superior 'African' female characteristics (large bum and top, with general athletic features) while offering the supposedly inferior White female alongside for a crude comparison. The White women shown for this comparison were overly thin 'model' stereotypes with a fair amount of attractiveness, but the less desirable 'supposedly' Caucasian body type.

Also, speaking of the entertainment media, why are we seeing more and more television shows that deal with themes which embrace and seem to promote homosexuality, racial integration and the like? Why does this trend exist? If ethnic races are getting more and more 'face-time' on a multitude of current television shows, why do they need their own 'racial-specific' channels? Look at Univision (Latino) and BET (Black) as examples. Why do I have trouble finding an all-White channel(s)? Why does this trend seem so disturbing?

Yes, all people have different tastes in music. All people also have diferent tastes in social behavior, too. That doesn't mean that it's ok to let some psychopath go out and maim people because that's his taste. Some things are just wrong... like rap. Rap is missing something very crucial when trying to understand what it really is. A "c". Add "c" to rap and you now see what it really is. crap. As are it's contents and lyrics. "c"rap is nothing more than the advocation and glorification of hate, violence, perversion, extortion, drugs, materialism, and ignorance. There is very little talent or substance required to produce and execute "c"rap music, yet it yeilds overwhelming rewards. Sort of like welfare. Do nothing, get paid anyway. It's laziness. All you have to do is dress up, yell some poorly written grammatically incorrect poetry over a boring bassline, and slap some skanky mongrel slut around to make you look like a "gangsta", and you're instantly a "c"rap superstar. And why does this appeal to the youth? Because it IS so easy. "Hey, if I get into this, I can have mad bling and tag me some hoes too!" It is mindless garbage, aimed at degrading the quality of human substance produced by this country at the direction of the You-Know-Who who own the record companies.

Monster Magnet did a video a couple of years ago as a parody of Rap videos, they were driving around in a shiny car, with women, gold, and all of the silly frills, Dave Wyndorf did an interview about it where he said that white kids listen to Rap because the image is full of women, money, and cars, so they were working to subvert that, it has been a long time, but this thread reminded me of it.

Rap music will soon go the way of disco. One hundred years from now people will still be listening to Strauss, Wagner and Hank Williams; (c)rap "music" will simply be an ugly reminder of a wicked, bygone era as will democracy, globalism and multiracialism!

Rap music will soon go the way of disco. One hundred years from now people will still be listening to Strauss, Wagner and Hank Williams; (c)rap "music" will simply be an ugly reminder of a wicked, bygone era as will democracy, globalism and multiracialism!

Hmmm. Look at it from this perspective and tell me if rap 'music' is going anywhere over the next 20, 30 or even 40 years:

1) Easy to produce 'quality' rap 'songs'.
2) Strong 'trendy' market already in place for avid consumption of related 'goods' ie., clothing lines, jewelry, sports goods like athletic footwear etc.
3) Rap videos are also easy to produce and contain vivid wish-fulfillment imagery of all types.
4) Rap 'songs' require little authentic talent on behalf of the 'rapper', so any new rap 'gangster' with 'attitude' and 'street-smarts' can become the next sensation. If one notices already, about every 8-12 months some new rap 'sensation' comes out, taking the North American Continent by 'storm'. This equates to a never-ending stream of 'sensations' for young impressionable Blacks (and Whites) to worship.
5) Many rap 'songs' simply take bits and pieces of other types of better quality songs and 'sample' them without mercy and call the production 'A New Rap 'Song'.

See how wondrously easy it is then, for rap 'songs' and the 'artists' that produce them to exist and multiply without mercy. See how easy it is then too, for rap to exist and flourish for another half century.
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